One of the anomalies of the Washington electoral system is that each party has amazingly long winning streaks in certain races. The governor’s race gets the most attention, since our state has gone longer than any other in the country without a Republican at the helm (since 1985), and though that streak was ended by the voters in 2004, the judicial branch kept it alive by rewarding voter fraud and keeping Dino Rossi out of the governor’s mansion.
However, two other streaks in play for even longer saw much different results in the primary. In the Secretary of State race, incumbent Kim Wyman is fighting off a challenge from retired Microsoft millionaire (and supremely unqualified) Tina Podlodowski, and emerged from the primary with an early 48-46% lead (with the rest going to a Libertarian) in her effort to keep the seat in Republican hands, as it has been since 1964.
However, in the State Treasurer’s race, Democrats are on the verge of losing control of the office for the first time since Dwight Eisenhower was President. As reported by Austin Jenkins at KPLU, “For the first time, it appears Washington voters could choose between two candidates from the same party for a statewide office. Early returns in the primary race for state treasurer had two Republicans, Benton County Treasurer Duane Davidson and Michael Waite, who works for a real estate investment firm, holding the top two positions after primary voters split their votes among three Democratic candidates.”
(Editor’s Note: Several members of the Shift team have worked on the Waite campaign, so we have a bit of a bias, though the numbers don’t lie.)
If the vote totals hold up through the next week or so of ballot counting – about half the votes were counted last night – voters will be left choosing between two Republicans for a job that hasn’t been held by the party since 1954.
So, we may only have to wait until next week, and not November, to see the Democrats’ 60-year Treasurer winning streak end, though we certainly will have to wait another 100 days or so to see if the voters will again end the liberals’ hold on the governor’s mansion.
… the judicial branch kept it alive by rewarding voter fraud and keeping Dino Rossi out of the governor’s mansion.
If the rest of this post shows the same keen grasp of reality as does this stale, discredited conspiracy theory, then the Democrats may have little to worry about.
Looking forward to election day.
Acorn delivered hundreds of votes that were of imaginary people in King County. Thus, Queen Christine was elected. I am sure Acorn and its nutty leftist derivatives is at it again for the November election.
I believe you’re reply was meant for tensor – not me. I voted for Rossi.
Lou has a great imagination. 🙂
🙂
Yes, I hope he saw it.
Acorn delivered hundreds of votes that were of imaginary people in King County.
Any word on why King County’s Republican prosecutor didn’t bother to investigate this? Were we voters in King County wrong to elect a Republican to that office?
I am sure Acorn and its nutty leftist derivatives is at it again for the November election.
No one has any doubt you are.
Rossi wins once. Rossi wins a second time. Gregoire wins (by the slightest margin) on the third count and she takes the prize. An investigation follows, which clearly showed corruption (dead voters, lost ballots, etc.) benefitting the Democratic candidate.
At what point, exactly, did these facts lead up to a “discredited conspiracy”?
At what point, exactly, did these facts lead up to a “discredited conspiracy”?
When Judge Bridges ruled no evidence of fraud had been brought before his court, and that no evidence had been presented to show the errors made during the election had resulted from any attempt to alter the election’s outcome.
Since no evidence of fraud had been submitted in court, this post’s claim about “rewarding voter fraud” is a stale, discredited conspiracy theory, as was your pointless rambling.
(You also left out what was actually proven in court: felons having voted for Rossi. So much for your supposed concern about clean election results.)
Yes…thank you for reminding me that the Democrat governor of Virginia just restored voting rights to 200,000 felons. I feel better, already.
You are correct on how that judge ruled, but there has been ample evidence of voter fraud in King County, since then. Of course, Liberals have always been very good at “cherry picking” facts to suit their conclusions.
BTW, did you notice Jay Inslee’s Executive Order on gun control that pointed out the fact that guns account for more fatalities than car accidents in the state? He just happened to leave out the fact that gun fatalities are in 3rd place, behind falls and poisoning. Look it up.
One day, Liberals are going to have fact those inconvenient facts they always seem to miss. See how well that worked out for Venezuela.
… but there has been ample evidence of voter fraud in King County, since then.
Then why did King County Prosecutors Maleng and Satterberg, both Republicans, not investigate this “ample evidence”? (Voter fraud being a felony, you might think they would take an interest…)
BTW, did you notice your account was wrong? Gregoire’s margin of victory was not “the slightest margin”; that distinction goes to Rossi’s lead after the mandatory recount – and that margin would have been slighter still, had the illegal votes of felons been deducted from his total at that stage, instead of during the trial.
So, should Rossi run for governor of Virginia? Sounds like he’d get a lot more votes now.
When polls indicate that 7 in 10 felons vote Democrat (Washington Examiner) I have to wonder where you get your info.
You should know very well where I got my info: not from any polls, but from Judge Bridges himself, who ruled that felons had voted for Rossi, and deducted those illegal votes from Rossi’s total. (Despite the plaintiffs’ claims of both voter fraud and felons having voted for Gregoire, no hard evidence of any kind was ever presented in court to support either claim.)
Thus it was proven, in an open court of law, that felons voted illegally for Rossi. That’s beginning to look very much like an inconvenient fact you just seem to keep on missing.
4 votes for Rossi, by felons, was hardly worth mentioning and Gregoire’s 133 vote lead was still a “slim” margin.
4 votes for Rossi, by felons, was hardly worth mentioning…
Yes, illegal votes by felons — so important when you have some meaningless poll from somewhere which claims they go to Democrats — suddenly become just not worth mentioning when they actually are *proven in court* to have gone to your favored candidate. Right.
…and Gregoire’s 133 vote lead was still a “slim” margin.
I didn’t say it wasn’t a “slim” margin; I merely noted it wasn’t “the slightest margin,” because Rossi’s margin had been thinner still. Watch:
129 votes is three times Rossi’s margin of votes (42) after the mandatory recount. 133 votes is 3.5 times what Rossi’s total would have been after the mandatory recount, had he not continued to get credit for the illegal votes of felons.
See? Rossi’s felon-assisted and premature margin of victory was actually “the slightest margin” in that election, by a factor of three. You’re welcome.